Church of Corpus Chirsti is a Grade II listed building in the Fenland local planning authority area, England. First listed on 31 October 1983. Church. 1 related planning application.
Church of Corpus Chirsti
- WRENN ID
- forgotten-banister-coral
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Fenland
- Constituency
- North East Cambridgeshire MP: Steve Barclay (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 31 October 1983
- Type
- Church
- Address
- Church of Corpus Chirsti, Front Road, Wisbech St. Mary
- OS grid reference
- TF 381 073
- Coordinates
- 52.64593, 0.04031
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Church of Corpus Christi, built in 1857, is located on the north side of Front Road in Murrow. It is constructed of gault brick with red brick detailing around the doors and windows. The church features a steeply pitched slate roof with a dentil eaves cornice. The south end includes a gabled bell-cote situated above three lancet windows. The nave consists of four bays, separated by two-stage buttressing, each featuring a lancet window. The east end is apsed, and there is a gabled brick porch on the east side. Inside, the church contains an 18th-century alabaster font, which has a bowl on a baluster stem.
Local climate
Church of Corpus Chirsti sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 690 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 96% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 98% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 54% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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